{
  "place_id": "melets#7793_11190",
  "wikidata": "Q658861",
  "country": "PL",
  "local_name": "Mielec",
  "names": {
    "en": {
      "main": "Mielec",
      "why": "Current local name, already written in the Latin alphabet; used directly in English without translation.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Melits",
          "why": "Yiddish name in Latin transcription, used in Jewish history and genealogy; transcription varies between authors."
        }
      ]
    },
    "fr": {
      "main": "Mielec",
      "why": "Nom local actuel, déjà écrit en alphabet latin et repris tel quel en français.",
      "alternatives": [
        {
          "name": "Melits",
          "why": "Nom yiddish transcrit en caractères latins, employé en histoire juive et en généalogie ; la transcription varie selon les auteurs."
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "about_en": "Mielec is a city on the Wisłoka River in southeastern Poland. Aircraft manufacturing has played a prominent role in its modern industrial history.",
  "about_fr": "Mielec est une ville du sud-est de la Pologne, sur la Wisłoka. La construction aéronautique a joué un rôle important dans son histoire industrielle moderne.",
  "certainty": "high",
  "notes": "",
  "rank": 181,
  "slug": "mielec"
}